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Angus Watt is a Canadian financial advisor and media personality who is the managing director of individual investor services at National Bank Financial and the founder of the Angus Watt Advisory Group. He is known for his daily financial reports on Global Edmonton and CHED AM.

Early life and education
Watt grew up in Elmira, Ontario and moved with his family to Toronto at the age of five. His father Owen was a Spitfire pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Watt got his first job at a marina when he was 10 years old, and went on to work as a school care­taker, life­guard and ware­house worker while in school. Growing up wanting to become a lawyer, Watt attended law classes at York University until he changed his mind in his fourth year. He also drove a truck for a furniture store while in university. Watt eventually graduated from York in 1975 with a political science degree and attended a training program for investment advisors at McLeod Young Weir in Toronto.

Career
Watt worked as an advisor for a year in Toronto before being transfered to Edmonton in 1976 to develop his own practice; among his first clients was the local entrepreneur Charles Allard. In November 1982, Watt joined the brokerage firm Levesque Beaubien, which was later acquired by National Bank of Canada in 1988. As the vice-president of Levesque Beaubien, he was one of the investment dealers that assisted with the privization of Alberta Government Telephones under its holding company Telus Corporation in 1990.

In 1999, Watt founded the Angus Watt Team with Jane Alm and Jan Frederickson, who later aquired ownership stakes in the business. The team launched its insurance division in 2002, and changed its name to the Angus Watt Advisory Group in the late 2000s to emphasize its partners' stake in the business.

Other activities
Watt served as the campaign chair for the United Way in Edmonton in 1996 and 1997, returning in the latter year after the resignation of former EPCOR president and CEO David Foy two days before the drive began.